SpyTalk: July 25, 2010 - July 31, 2010

The U.S. strategy in Afghanistan isn’t working, says a former head of the CIA task force that beat the Russians there 25 years ago, so it’s time to try something else: Dump Karzai. “Having run the CIA's Afghan Task Force—which...

A former Navy lawyer, now a civil litigator, predicts that the massive WikiLeaks document dump will be “a gold mine” for personal injury suits against war-zone contractors. “I see this database as a real resource for U.S. plaintiffs’ lawyers who...

Word is that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and the White House are still jawing over who gets to know what about top secret operations, a struggle that has all but frozen passage of the intelligence authorization bill. Pelosi’s people...

With everybody comparing the WikiLeaks document dump to the Pentagon Papers, let's not forget the immense time and wrist-breaking effort it took in the pre-Internet days to copy stolen files. Carpal Tunnel Syndrome hadn't even been invented yet. For Daniel...

If the oil business is as rough-and-tumble as they say, then the two aviation-fuel companies at the center of a controversy over contracts at a U.S. airbase in Central Asia could have done far worse than to hire Dana Perino...

A powerful Afghan insurgent leader and a man identified as Osama Bin Laden's financial adviser purchased ground-to-air missiles from North Korea in 2005, according to an uncorroborated U.S. intelligence report released by Wikileaks on Sunday. "On 19 November 2005, Hezb-Islami...

Everything that is terrifying about Washington’s relationship with Pakistan can be summed up in the Wikileaks documents on Hamid Gul, a former chief of the ISI, Islamabad's intelligence service. The documents portray Gul as the public face of an underground...

The Pentagon says it is “cooperating fully” with investigations into allegations of corruption related to aviation fuel contracts at a U.S. air base in Kyrgyzstan, a major staging area for the war in Afghanistan. It’s the first time evidence has...